"Instant Disassembly"

What's Your Rupture? / Mom & Pop

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"I kept explaining I was too tired to continue to speak," Andrew Savage mumbles heavily on "Instant Disassembly". You might recognize this feeling: You might've said something like this yourself, sunk into a chair and feeling the sudden accumulation of a night's drinking, like someone is pressing down on your skull with a hardcover dictionary. Parquet Courts usually report from the opposite end of the energy spectrum, their songs zipping along like dune buggies piloted by eighth graders. But on "Disassembly," they sound both exhausted. It is a downright Stonesy rock ballad, built on numb-fingered power-chord strumming and an insistent but splintered guitar lead. Savage calls up the languor of the music in the lyrics, which pop off the surface like sweat beads on a Heineken: "The last classic rock band's last solid record creeps in/ A call out of the blue from an old, old friend." Parquet Courts have always been a smart band, one with insightful things to say about themselves and others, but they've never sounded this emotionally open before.